Barman 1.2.1 released

Posted on 2013-06-17

2ndQuadrant is proud to announce the release of version 1.2.1 of Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL.

This minor release introduces support for bandwidth limitation
through the "bandwidth_limit" option. This option allows administrators to set the maximum number of kilobytes per second for backup and recovery operations. Different bandwidth caps can be set for different servers.

More control on bandwidth limitations can be achieved through
the "tablespace_bandwidth_limit" option that allows to cap the bandwidth usage for one or more specific PostgreSQL tablespaces.

By default, no bandwidth limitation is enforced, making Barman 1.2.1 fully compatible with configuration files from previous versions.
This set of features gives administrators finer control on
regular backup activities, reducing the impact of these operations on live systems.

Minor bugs have also been fixed.

For a complete list of changes, see the "Release Notes" section below.

About Barman

Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open source administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python. It allows your organisation to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments and help DBAs during the recovery phase. Barman's most requested features include backup catalogues, retention policies, remote recovery, archiving and compression of WAL files and backups.

Built on top of PostgreSQL's robust and reliable Point-In-Time-Recovery technology, Barman allows database administrators to manage the backup and recovery phases of several PostgreSQL database servers from a centralised location, using an intuitive command interface. Barman is distributed under GNU GPL 3.